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House Republicans are barreling toward an impeachment inquiry into President Biden, with some saying the conference should pull the trigger as soon as next month when Congress reconvenes, The Hill reports.

“It’s a must,” Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) told The Hill in an interview. “I mean, if not now, when?”

“We got enough not just to start to inquiry, but we got enough to impeach him,” he added.

Other GOP lawmakers, however, say they are not ready to take the plunge.

“I think before we move on to [an] impeachment inquiry, we should … there should be a direct link to the president in some evidence,” Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) told The Hill in an interview. “We should have some clear evidence of a high crime or misdemeanor, not just assuming there may be one. I think we need to have more concrete evidence to go down that path.”

While the impeachment train has not yet left the station, the engines are fired up.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who has been flirting with taking the step for weeks, last week gave his clearest sign yet that the House may start an official inquiry this fall when he told Fox Business the chamber could launch an impeachment inquiry when it reconvenes in September.

Asked by Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo on Sunday about whether he has the votes to launch an inquiry, McCarthy said: “When we go back, we will discuss this.”

The House Oversight Committee, led by Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), has worked to keep its investigation into the Biden family’s foreign business dealings front and center during the August recess, releasing transcripts of committee interviews and sending requests for information.

“If you look at all the information we have been able to gather so far, it is a natural step forward that you would have to go to an impeachment inquiry,” McCarthy said Sunday.

Members visiting their districts over the August recess say they are frequently asked about impeachment. Lawmakers voice concerns about evidence gathered through GOP investigations, in addition to the appointment of a special counsel in the Justice Department’s probe into Hunter Biden, the president’s son. And mounting indictments against former President Trump are further fueling frustration among the conservative base.